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From: Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
To: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Matthew Dharm <mdharm-usb@one-eyed-alien.net>,
	Patrick Mansfield <patmans@us.ibm.com>,
	USB Storage List <usb-storage@lists.one-eyed-alien.net>,
	SCSI development list <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [usb-storage] Time to allow MODE SENSE for USB disk-type storage devices?
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 21:13:29 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040308201328.GA13708@apps.cwi.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.0403081046190.1187-100000@ida.rowland.org>

On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 11:05:38AM -0500, Alan Stern wrote:

> Maybe it's time to think about improving the situation with MODE SENSE for 
> USB devices.  I don't know that page 0x08 is particularly crucial for USB 
> devices, but page 0x3f (for the write-protect setting) certainly would be 
> good to have.

Just to be sure: 0x3f is not the code for some particular page,
but for all available pages.

The write-protect setting is found (if it is found) in the header,
so it does not matter what page(s) we ask for, as long as we get
at least one header.

Andries

  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-03-08 20:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-03-08 16:05 Time to allow MODE SENSE for USB disk-type storage devices? Alan Stern
2004-03-08 17:55 ` [usb-storage] Time to allow MODE SENSE for USB disk-type storage de vices? Pat LaVarre
2004-03-08 21:16   ` [usb-storage] Time to allow MODE SENSE for USB disk-typestorage " Pat LaVarre
2004-03-08 20:13 ` Andries Brouwer [this message]
2004-03-10  1:43   ` [usb-storage] Time to allow MODE SENSE for USB disk-type storage devices? Patrick Mansfield
2004-03-10  9:13     ` Andries Brouwer
2004-03-10 16:56       ` Alan Stern
2004-03-10 18:53       ` [usb-storage] Time to allow MODE SENSE for USB disk-type storag edevices? Pat LaVarre
2004-03-10 20:24         ` Alan Stern
2004-03-10 20:58           ` Pat LaVarre
2004-03-10 22:43             ` Alan Stern

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